The Los Angeles Police Department presents “Your Traffic Officer,” a late 1940s black-and-white training film that shows what it takes to be a motorcycle patrolman on the new freeways in post-World War II California. Six people lost their lives on a “modern highway” in the past year (probably the 110 Freeway) the narrator explains at […]
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HARLEY DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE SALES FILM 1950s DUO-GLIDE 42904 | Periscope Film
June 10, 2016 PeriscopeFilm THE NEW HARLEY DAVIDSONS ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD is a campy yet precious sales film for the “new” Harley Davidson including the Duo-Glide and Sportster, the Model 165 and the Hummer. Made in the late 1950s the film was directed by Harlan P. Croy and written by Sam F. Greco […]
1942 CANADIAN ARMY FILM UNIT ” MOTORCYCLE TRAINING ” WWII INSTRUCTIONAL FILM NORTON 16H 16314 | Periscope Film
Nov 30, 2019 Periscope Film This 1942 training film (Prod. No. 169) from the Canadian Army Film Unit and narrated by Gerry Wilmot shows the training of dispatch riders at a training school in England. The film opens with a scene of an officer showing soldiers a motorcycle engine in a room at a training […]